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New Mexico's Bill Richardson first Latino in Obama team - The Australian


Mr Richardson now becomes the first Latino on the president-elect’s fast-filling Cabinet. Talking optimistically despite the recession, Mr Obama said, “We have everything we need to renew our economy, we have the ingenuity and technology, the ...


3 Dec 2008

William Balfour Denied Bail; Prosecutors Outline Motive, Timeline For ... - The Hollywood Gossip


Chicago Prosecutors say William Balfour killed Jennifer Hudson's brother, mother and nephew because he was angry his estranged wife was dating other men. At a hearing Wednesday, prosecutors claimed Balfour came to the family's home the morning of the ...


3 Dec 2008

Rice pushes Pakistan, seeks to curb India response - Reuters AlertNet


NEW DELHI, Dec 4 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Pakistan to cooperate fully in the probe into the Mumbai attacks but she also warned India against any action that could stoke regional conflict. In a delicate balancing ...


3 Dec 2008

Fla. authorities say intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him ... - Minneapolis Star Tribune


CAPE CORAL, Fla. - Authorities in southwest Florida say an intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him on a beer run. Cape Coral police arrested the 27-year-old man last week, after seeing a pickup truck drive onto a median. When officers stopped ...


3 Dec 2008

Flights resume at Bangkok - Deutsche Welle


International and domestic flights out of the Thai capital have begun flying out up to 350,000 stranded tourists. Anti-government protesters in Thailand ended their blockade of Bangkok's two main airports on Wednesday morning following a week-long ...


3 Dec 2008

Has Obama broken his first campaign promise? - Salon


In June, during his campaign for presidency, Barack Obama promised that he would institute a "windfall profits tax " on US oil companies. "I'll make oil companies like Exxon pay a tax on their windfall profits, and we'll use the money to help ...


3 Dec 2008

From brooding to brawling: Harper's 24-hour turnaround in fight to keep his job (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)


YAHOO - From brooding to brawling: HarperOTTAWA - Before he could take to the airwaves to fight for his job, Stephen Harper first had to revive the morale of a dispirited team and rekindle his own combative streak.


3 Dec 2008

Whimsical West wants you to interact with his art (AP via Yahoo! News)


YAHOO - Whimsical West wants you to interact with his art (AP via Yahoo! News)Franz West is an acclaimed contemporary artist, his work sold at top-tier international galleries and admired at major European museums. But when a curator approached him about his first U.S. retrospective, he was apprehensive.


3 Dec 2008

Fla. authorities say intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him on a beer run (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)


YAHOO - Fla. authorities say intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him on a beer run (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)CAPE CORAL, Fla. - Authorities in southwest Florida say an intoxicated man had his 9-year-old son take him on a beer run. Cape Coral police arrested the 27-year-old man last week, after seeing a pickup truck drive onto a median.


3 Dec 2008

Political Junkie: Obama Builds His Cabinet (NPR)


YAHOO - Political Junkie: Obama Builds His Cabinet (NPR)President-elect Barack Obama names Gov. Bill Richardson Secretary of Commerce in his administration, and Saxby Chambliss wins the Senate run-off in Georgia. Plus, former governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has some recommendations to get Republicans moving the "right" way.


3 Dec 2008

Maliki's Political Foes Challenge His Moves to Consolidate Power (Time Magazine)


YAHOO - MalikiFearful that the Prime Minister is enlarging his powers, Iraq's Kurdish President threatens to take him to court


3 Dec 2008

Man throws Christmas tree at his father (UPI)


YAHOO - Man throws Christmas tree at his father (UPI)PARRISH, Fla., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Police in Parrish, Fla, arrested a 37-year-old man for allegedly throwing a Christmas tree at his father.


3 Dec 2008

Question Period theme of the day: PM protecting only his own job ...


Posted is National Posts news blog, watching the news so you don't have to with up-to-the-minute breaking stories, news from the Internet and takes from National Post writers.


3 Dec 2008

Marginal Revolution: Joe the Plumber and his favorite books


Here is the full list of his favorite books. Here is my source. Here is an on-line version of TOMAC. Scrolling through it a bit, it is more readable than my recollection and it remains one of the better 20th century books on monetary ...


3 Dec 2008

Win Ben Stein's mind - Roger Ebert's Journal


For example, in your film, "eXpelled: no intelligence allowed," you document the story of Guillermo Gonzales, who was denied tenure at Iowa State because of his personal premises, after 400 professors signed a petition opposing "all ...


2 Dec 2008

The Last of His Kind: The Lamented Life of Lonesome George ...


Photo by Lena Tashjian Lonesome George slovenly lumbers out of the brush in his compound, painstakingly climbs the minor incline up to his pool, and collapses. The famed giant tortoise seems exhausted and lethargic, even by tortoise ...


2 Dec 2008

FiveThirtyEight.com: Politics Done Right: Franken's Good Day ...


Since our post earlier this afternoon suggesting that Norm Coleman was the slight favorite to win the recount, Al Franken has gotten three pieces of good news which cloud the picture and may tilt the probabilities in his favor. ...


2 Dec 2008

Washington Wire - WSJ.com : How Nixon Built His Cabinet


Brad Haynes reports on the latest batch of President Richard Nixon's White House tapes. As interest groups do what they can to influence President-elect Barack Obama’s picks for a diverse cabinet, newly available archives from the Nixon ...


2 Dec 2008